Legal Recourse for Birth Injury and Birth Trauma
When you go into labor, you can choose to turn your care over to a number of people, including delivery room nurses and doctors or perhaps to a midwife. You expect those you trust with your care to be the most respected and trained child delivery professionals in the world. But, from time to time, lapses in judgment, misinformation, confusion and even medical negligence occur in our hospitals and alternative child delivery settings.
When Your Infant Is Injured, Contact a Birth Trauma Lawyer
When negligence results in an injury to your child, it is hard to believe and can be emotionally and financially devastating. You may face the possibility of permanent long-term care for your child and the costs associated with that care. In the most of unfortunate circumstances, you may have even lost a child due to medical negligence, and specific birth injury, or birth trauma.
If you have questions about your child's delivery or injuries your child received during the birthing process, answers can be hard to find and even harder to understand. A Colorado birth injury and trauma attorney can work with you, the hospital, staff and doctors to examine in detail the circumstances of your child's birth and determine with you if a medical malpractice claim is appropriate.
At Kiel & Trueax, LLC, our Colorado medical malpractice attorneys have provided aggressive representation in birth injury cases since 1991. We are among the most experienced personal injury trial law firms serving Denver, Colorado. Call 720-256-2438 or contact us online for a free consultation.
Types of Birth Injuries
Birth injuries can range from bone fractures and infections in the infant or mother to brain damage, spinal cord injuries, internal bleeding and wrongful death.
Common birth injuries that our attorneys handle include:
- Erb's Palsy: a form of brachial plexus injury that can affect part or all of a child's arm
- Cerebral Palsy: an injury caused by brain damage that affects a child's movement or nervous system
- Fetal Acidosis and Hypoxic Injuries: injuries caused by oxygen deprivation
- Shoulder Dystocia: an injury to the infant's shoulder caused during delivery which can lead to the infant's death if medical professionals do not respond appropriately
- Abrupted Placenta: a serious injury to the mother and infant caused by the placental lining separating from the mother's uterus
- PreEclampsia: high blood pressure in the mother
We Understand Serious Birth Injuries
In order to bring a successful medical malpractice claim, your attorney must understand your injury. Our Denver birth injury lawyers spend hours researching the science behind our clients' injuries so that we can meet any medical witness at trial head on. We take only the amount of cases we can handle well so that each of our clients gets the attention they deserve and can walk out of our door feeling like they were treated properly.
To discuss your birth injury claim in a free initial consultation with a Colorado medical malpractice lawyer, call us at 720-256-2438 or contact us online.
